124 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The volume for 1860 was much larger than any previously 

 published, and contained nearly five hundred pages. Although 

 there was no striking paper, the usual high level was maintained. 

 Owen contributed nothing ; but there was an abstract of 

 Kitchen Parker's notes on the shoe-bill stork, which appeared 

 in full in the fourth volume of the Transactions. Professor 

 Newton's observations on hybrid ducks, and Bartlett's practical 

 notes on animals in the Gardens, are worth recalling. 



A plan (see p. 106), with a list of the houses, was issued 

 in the year of the Great Exhibition, and sold at twopence. 

 Mitchell's first Guide, published in 1852, contains this plan, but 

 Gould's humming-bird house, there shown in its original position 

 in the South Garden, has been erased. The imprint contains 

 the line " Printed for the Author," and it would seem not to 

 have been an official publication. Another edition was contem- 

 plated, which was to contain a " List of Animals," probably on 

 the lines of that published in 1844, but there is no record of its 

 publication. In the text is an announcement of the prepara- 

 tion of a work " for which an original series of illustrations have 

 been made from animals in the Gardens by the accurate hand of 

 Mr. Wolf" This refers to the "Zoological Sketches," begun by 

 Mitchell, with the sanction of the Council. The first volume, 

 completed by Dr. Sclater, was published in 1860. 



The first Catalogue of the Library was published in 1854; it 

 contained the titles of about four hundred and sixty separate 

 works, including scientific periodicals. 



At the Council Meeting of December 16, 1857, it was pro- 

 posed to publish a Garden Guide. An amendment, moved 

 by Dr. Sclater and seconded by Gould, that, "the Secretary 

 undertaking to complete and have ready for sale a Catalogue of 

 the Gardens before Lady Day next, the publication thereof be 

 left in his hands," was carried. This Guide appeared in 1858, 

 much in the same form as it bore down to the end of 1903, 

 when that series came to an end. 



In 1860 Holds worth's Handbook to the Fish-house was 

 published, but no second edition was called for. It was intended 

 to provide visitors with information about the fishes and inver- 

 tebrate animals exhibited in the fish house, but not to serve as 

 " a detailed Guide." There was a history of the aquarium, with 



